Its been changed for a while now like a year or two. Well supposed to be in America and British North America. Its what we learned in health. Sexually Transmitted Infection!
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Not STD its STI
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Does it really make a difference? Disease is an infection..seems one in the same to me.
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call it what you like, its the same shit, tomato patato, horse shit bullshit, its all the same thing and has no bearing on hwo you get it or how to treat it.
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this is my first post, so be gentle, please.the reason why there has been a shift from STD to STI is that the word 'disease' is considered to be tainted with negative connotations that the word 'infection' doesn't have. greetings from london.
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Okay even so it's the same thing lol. Disease and infection... in my opinion... both have negative connotations.
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good point, damn those evil words
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It sounds like unnecessary political correctness - after all, a disease is a negative thing, otherwise it wouldn't be a disease. Why try to pretend it isn't?
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That i dont know just last year in health class they dont us it has been changed to STI after some scientis dude did something... yea so now its STI lol but an ifection is diffrent then disease.
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That's true, an infection is a more precise term than a disease. Depression is a disease but not an infection; so is a broken arm. Perhaps that's the reason.
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Depression is an Illness, not a disease...But to answer your question;Diseases that are spread through sexual contact are usually referred to as “sexually transmitted diseases”—STDs for short. In recent years, however, many experts in this area of public health have suggested replacing STD with a new term—sexually transmitted infection, or STI.Why? The concept of “disease,” as in STD, implies a clear medical problem, usually some obvious signs or symptoms. But in truth several of the most common STDs have no signs or symptoms in the majority of persons infected. Or they have mild signs and symptoms that can be easily overlooked. So the sexually transmitted virus or bacteria can be described as creating “infection,” which may or may not result in “disease.” This is true of chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, and human papillomavirus (HPV), to name a few.For this reason, in some of the published literature, the term “disease” is being replaced by “infection.” ASHA has used the term STD since 1988 and it appears in hundreds of published ASHA documents, including many of these Web pages. Users of this Web site will continue to see it for some time.